Reference Base Notes for: Distribution - Poaching back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (6)  ... 3 4 5 6  Vigne, L.; Martin, E.B. 1990 Increasing threats to Assam's rhinos. International Zoo News 37 (7): 28-30, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Another lethal poaching tactic started in Sept 1989 when a rhino was electrocuted to death in Pobitora by a wire attached to a high-tensile power line traversing the park. A second electrocution occurred shortly afterwards. Poachers ingenuously hook wires onto the power lines, drawing current...   details Reilly, T. 1990 Black rhino return to Swaziland. REF Journal 3: 20-23, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Chances of obtaining black rhino were enhanced by the 1987 rescue operation which was being heavily sponsored by WWF in the Zambezi Valley, where rhino were falling prey to poachers at the average rate of one per day, and here approximately 30 poachers had already been shot dead in anti-poaching ...   details Reece, R.W. 1990 Encouraging news from Zaire. Around the Horn 1 (2): 4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Distribution - Poaching White Rhino Since 1984, no rhinos have been poached in the park.   details Chilvers, B. 1990 Rhino's last stand in Africa. REF Journal 3: 12-19, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species When the discussion turned to the record of shocking indifference or sickening corruption of most African governments concerning wildlife, the speakers preferred not to be named: 'Trade bans and treaties are meaningless to corrupt government officials who are above the laws of their own lands and...   details Buitron, D. 1989 Chizarira: the black rhino's last Eden. Swara 12 (2): 25-27, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Even so, the job of interdicting the Zambian-based poachers is proving to be a hard one, especially as long as the Zambian government continues to refuse to take serious action to help stop it. Most of the country along the Zambezi is very dense bushland, difficult of access at the best of times...   details Western, D. 1989 What happened to all that rhino horn?. Traffic USA 9 (3): 6, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species According to calculations, between 66,360 and 76,440 black rhinos and 2,272 to 2,653 northern white rhino were killed by poachers from 1970 to 1987. These rhinos may have yielded a calculated 199,478 to 229,910 kilos of rhino horn, but trade statistics only account for about 101,000 kilos.   details Thomson, R. 1989 Rhino-horn facts twisted. Personality 1989 April: 5 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino I captured, moved and re-- established some 140 black rhino in Zimbabwe during 24 years in that country's National Park service. My university thesis was on the black rhino. And in 1987 I acted as a consultant to a British film company in Zambia during   details Buitron, D. 1989 Chizarira: the black rhino's last Eden. Swara 12 (2): 25-27, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino By the late 1980's, 2 or 3 rhinos were being killed every day in zambia's Luangwa valley, reducing what was once a population of 2000 to fewer than 100 today.   details Western, D. 1989 What happened to all that rhino horn?. Traffic USA 9 (3): 6, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Distribution - Poaching All Rhino Species According to calculations, between 66,360 and 76,440 black rhinos and 2,272 to 2,653 northern white rhino were killed by poachers from 1970 to 1987. These rhinos may have yielded a calculated 199,478 to 229,910 kilos of rhino horn, but trade statistics only account for about 101,000 kilos.   details Tatham, G.H. 1988 The rhino conservation strategy in the Zambezi Valley code named Operation Stronghold. Zimbabwe Science News 22 (1/2): 21-23, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Undoubtedly this must have had a devastating effect on the rhino densities and poachers were soon to find difficulties in locating sufficient rhino to make the incursions into Luangwa profitable. The highest densities of, and the most easily accessible rhino for these poachers are presently in t...   details Loutit, B.D. 1988 The Damaraland rhino. African Wildlife 42 (2): 66-68, figs. 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino Although four black rhinoceros have recently been poached in the Etosha National Park, those suspected were tracked from the site of the slaughter to a local kraal not far from the Etosha border. The white traders involved were also apprehended within a few days and were charged for the illegal ...   details Loutit, B.D. 1988 The Damaraland rhino. African Wildlife 42 (2): 66-68, figs. 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species During the late 1970s and early 1980s the numbers were drastically reduced by poaching. Carcasses riddled with automatic bullets were found at waterholes and the local population joined the massacre with their own .303 rifles. Horns were hacked off with pangas and. in the case of elephants, chai...   details Loutit, B.D. 1988 The Damaraland rhino. African Wildlife 42 (2): 66-68, figs. 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species In Zimbabwe conservationists are fighting a conventional war against heavily armed poachers and the rhinoceros numbers are dropping daily.   details Lawley, J. 1987 The survival of the black rhino. Oryx 21 (3): 183 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species It appears that poaching of rhino in the Zambezi valley is being carried out by highly organised gangs operating across the river from Zambia. The gangs consist of the same people who have reduced the blakc rhino population of Lungwa valley from 3000 in the mid-1970s to a mere 200 now. The Nati...   details Andau, P.M. 1987 Conservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah, Malaysia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 39-47, fig. 3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino Between 1981 and 1984, the Game Branch obtained reports of at least two rhinos being killed annually in Sabah. Except in one case in 1981, there was insufficient evidence for any prosecution. There has been no report of any death of rhinos from early 1985 to date. It is not known if this appar...   details Sadjudin, H.R. 1987 The Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus Desm.) census in Ujung Kulon National Park. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 16-26, figs. 1-2, tables 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Distribution - Poaching Javan Rhino The drastic decline in number of this once widely distributed animal began at the turn of the 20th century. Indiscriminate hunting practices in the past were responsible for the elimination of the rhino throughout Java.   details Choudhury, A. 1987 Railway threat to Kaziranga. Oryx 21 (3): 160-163, figs. 1-5, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1966, 5 (2/3)   details Choudhury, A. 1987 Railway threat to Kaziranga. Oryx 21 (3): 160-163, figs. 1-5, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1983, 45-50   details Choudhury, A. 1987 Railway threat to Kaziranga. Oryx 21 (3): 160-163, figs. 1-5, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1984, 20-25, first half of year only   details Choudhury, A. 1987 Railway threat to Kaziranga. Oryx 21 (3): 160-163, figs. 1-5, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1969, 8 (1/0 adult, 2/5 young)   details Choudhury, A. 1987 Railway threat to Kaziranga. Oryx 21 (3): 160-163, figs. 1-5, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1981, 25   details Choudhury, A. 1987 Railway threat to Kaziranga. Oryx 21 (3): 160-163, figs. 1-5, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1970, 2 (2/0)   details Choudhury, A. 1987 Railway threat to Kaziranga. Oryx 21 (3): 160-163, figs. 1-5, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1968, 10 (7/3)   details Cumming, D. 1987 Zimbabwe and the conservation of black rhino. Zimbabwe Science News 21 (5/6): 59-62, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species The poaching of rhino is a highly organised operation involving wealthy international traders and often highly placed and corrupt politicians and officials. These people hire experienced and determined poachers as the anti-poaching forces in Zimbabwe have discovered over the past 18 months durin...   details Sadjudin, H.R. 1987 The Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus Desm.) census in Ujung Kulon National Park. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 16-26, figs. 1-2, tables 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Distribution - Poaching Javan Rhino During the period when U.K. was stricly patrolled [after 1969], there were no reported incidents of loss of rhino through poaching. Deaths occurred mainly from disease and old age.   details Atmawidjaja, R. 1987 Country report - Indonesia: Rhino management in Indonesia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 70-74 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Poachers catch and kill rhino using special traps with spears which can stab the animal in the back.   details Loutit, B.D. 1986 The rhinos of Damaraland - how are they faring?. Quagga 15: 30, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species The terrible population crash during the later 1970's and early 1980's was mainly due to poaching and the population dropped from an estimated 100 in Damaraland and 150 in Kaokoland (Gart Owen-Smith, pers comm). The poaching massacre was curtailed by intervention from concerned conservationists ...   details Borner, M.; Severre, E. 1986 Rhino and elephant poaching trends in the Selous Game Reserve. Pachyderm 6: 3-4, fig. 1, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino Poaching for trophies began to increase by 1981. During the 1984 hunting season the authors received reports from professional hunters that poaching had increased alarmingly. Similar reports were received from the Wildlife Division project manager and f   details Anonymous 1986 Rhino poaching in Zimbabwe. Pachyderm 6: 18 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Poaching in Zimbabwe update. Since the last report in Pachyderm (No.5) on rhino poaching in the Zambezi Valley, there have been continued incursions of Zambian poachers into the Zimbabwean side of the valley, and some successes in the struggle to contain their activities. During 1985, a total o...   details Anonymous 1986 Zimbabwe hits rhino/elephant poachers. Traffic Bulletin 8 (3): 34 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Anonymous 1986 Rhino horn smuggler jailed. Traffic Bulletin 8 (1): 12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Plage, D.; Plage, M. 1985 In the shadow of Krakatau: return of Java's wildlife. National Geographic 167 (6): 750-771, figs. 1-31 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Distribution - Poaching Javan Rhino After WW II a group of poachers planned an operation to wipe out all of Ujung Kulon';s rhinos. When they entered the peninsula, one was killed by a tiger. Since none of the nearby villagers would help them against the tigers, the poachers gave up.   details Choudhury, A. 1985 Distribution of Indian one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). Tiger Paper 12 (2): 25-30, maps 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino 1983 Jan-May, as many as 31 rhinos were killed by poachers.   details Choudhury, A. 1985 Distribution of Indian one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). Tiger Paper 12 (2): 25-30, maps 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Reasons for present spree of poaching: lack of sufficient patrol elephants and boats, the negligence of some forest officials, the occasional issue of fishing permits by the civil authorities inside the park (some of the 'fishermen' are poachers in disguise) and the lack of adequate buffer zone a...   details Pitman, D.; Tatham, G. 1985 Rhino poaching in Zimbabwe. Pachyderm 5: 14-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species However, reports indicate that rhino have become shy and difficult to hunt in these other areas because of heavy poaching. Meanwhile, the Middle Zambezi Valley has a 200 km river frontage that also forms the Zimbabwe-Zambian border. It has a dense black rhino population that has not been hunted...   details Choudhury, A. 1985 Distribution of Indian one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). Tiger Paper 12 (2): 25-30, maps 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1981, 25   details Plage, D.; Plage, M. 1985 In the shadow of Krakatau: return of Java's wildlife. National Geographic 167 (6): 750-771, figs. 1-31 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Distribution - Poaching Javan Rhino One bona-fide hunter shot nine rhinos around 1900. In 1930-1970, more than 40 were poached.   details Pitman, D.; Tatham, G. 1985 Rhino poaching in Zimbabwe. Pachyderm 5: 14-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Fight of poachers - Zimbabwe Hits Back. Two poachers have been shot and killed in the Zambezi Valley so far this year. Another two have been wounded and six arrested during a series of contacts - some involving exchanges of fire - during the period from January to June. National Parks patrols,...   details Jachman, H. 1984 Status of the Mwabvi rhino (Diceros bicornis). Nyala 10 (2): 77-90, figs. 1-8, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino Before the people were removed from the old extension area in 1975, this corridor was frequently hunted for rhino, which has probably continued at a low scale (during this survey, a 4-year-old female was found killed by poachers south of Nyantoko hill, while another older skeleton (2 to 3 years) ...   details Loutit, B.D. 1984 A study of the survival means of the black rhino (Diceros bicornis) in the arid areas of Damaraland and Skeleton Coast Park. Quagga 7: 4-5, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Poaching peaked in 1981-1982.   details Clements, B.; Loutit, B.; Owen-Smith, G.; Viljoen, P.J. 1984 A trust to fight for desert wildlife in Namibia. Oryx 18 (4): 215-217, figs. 1-3, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species In March 1983 a young female black rhino was killed by poachers, leaving a 4-months old calf to die. It was saved by the Namibia Wildlife Trust and is now in the care of the Department of Nature Conservation.   details Jachman, H. 1984 Status of the Mwabvi rhino (Diceros bicornis). Nyala 10 (2): 77-90, figs. 1-8, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino The status of rhino in Kasungu is rather stable, partly as a result of a properly functioning anti-poaching force and a well run research unit and partly due to low numbers in combination with dense vegetation.   details Mundy, P.J. 1984 Rhinoceros in South and South West Africa. Proceedings of a Workshop held at Pilanesberg Game Reserve, Bophuthatswana, 15 and 16 February 1984. Johannesburg, Endangered Wildlife Trust, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species There is no longer a poaching problem. The biggest headache is what to do with the Damaraland and Kaokoland black rhinos - there's a need to disperse them it seems (Joubert). Could any go to arid national parks in the Republic of South Africa? Recent legislation (1982) imposes a fine of R 6000 ...   details Mundy, P.J. 1984 Rhinoceros in South and South West Africa. Proceedings of a Workshop held at Pilanesberg Game Reserve, Bophuthatswana, 15 and 16 February 1984. Johannesburg, Endangered Wildlife Trust, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Natal: The more intensively we control, the fewer problems we have. There has been only one serious poaching problem, in 1981, when two black and two white rhinos were poached.There is much anti-poaching activity in Natal generally, and very little trade in rhino products. One patrol a day in 4...   details Vigne, L. 1984 Report on activities. Newsletter of the African Elephant and Rhino Group 3: 3, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino AERG Meeting, Nairobi, Dec 1983. Save the Rhino Trust, Zambia, has been given substantial funds by the Norwegian Agency for International Development (NORAD). This will cover anti-poaching activities for the next two years at least. During this period   details Cumming, D. 1984 An anti-poaching intelligence data bank for Zimbabwe: p. 185 In: Cumming, D.H.M. et al. The status and conservation of Africa's elephants and rhinos. Proceedings of the joint meeting of IUCN/SSC African Elephant and African Rhino Specialist Groups at Hwamge Safari Lodge, Zimbabwe, 30 July to 7 August 1981. Nairobi, AESG: pp. i-vi, 1-195 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Intelligence databank, Zimbabwe. Law enforcement is a major responsibility of the Management Branch of the Department of National Parks and Wild Life Management in Zimbabwe and thus of all wardens, senior rangers. rangers and game scouts in that Branch. Information on poaching is gathered, stor...   details Hillman Smith, K. 1983 Poaching 1983 style - a report from southern Sudan. Newsletter of the SSC 2: 16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Congo (Zaire) Distribution - Poaching White Rhino No details available yet   details Baidya, K.N. 1982 Alarm call for Great Indian rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis). Tiger Paper 9 (2): 6-7, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Though scientists say that there are no aphrodisiacal Properties in the rhino horn, poaching continues. Kaziranga Sanctuary officials admitted that 40 rhinos had been killed during the year 1981.   details Tajuddin Abdullah, M. 1982 Sumatran rhinoceros in Endau-Rompin and future. Journal of Wildlife and Parks (Malaysia) 1: 19-21 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino There are game rangers for the rhino management team to patrol the Kepoh, Juaseh, Sungai jemai, Bekok, and Sungai Jasin areas periodically. However, the effectiveness of curbing encroachment of the extensive region is questionable. The forest is accessible at Kepoh, Juaseh, Sungai Jemai, Bekok ...   details Anonymous 1982 Rhino horn smuggling operation uncovered. Traffic Bulletin 4 (1): 6 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species A game guard is standing trial on charges of shooting 4 thino and 5 buffalo in Hluhluwe. During the trial it was revealed that the horn had been cut off from the rhino and two were given to one Mary Xulu, who in a separate trial was fined R250 (or 6 months imprisonment) with an additional R250 f...   details Anonymous 1982 Rhino horn smuggling operation uncovered. Traffic Bulletin 4 (1): 6 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Police investigations are being carried out after reports of a rhino horn smuggling operation from the Hluhluwe and Umfolozi game reserves. Investigations have been going on for several months since it was discovered that large stocks of rhino horn in the Board's possession were missing. A NPB ...   details Borner, M. 1981 Black rhino disaster in Tanzania. Oryx 16 (1): 59-66, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino Tanzania has set aside large areas for its wildlife; national parks and game reserves cover 26.4 % of the whole country, so it is not human encroachment that is threatemng the rhinos' survival. Although some habitat changes are taking place in protected   details Anonymous 1980 Translocating the rhino. Africana 7 (2): 17, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino from Newsletter of Save the Rhino Trust. Received reports of 4 extensive patrols made into the national parks and adjoining game management areas. They found 21 recently killed rhino carcases. Meat is not the important factor, showing that it is not sm   details Klingel, H. 1979 Survey of African rhinoceroses: Report [to IUCN, African Rhino Specialist Group]. Report, cyclostyled, pp. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Poaching White Rhino Poaching has been serious during the last 8 years and with an increasing tendency.   details Klingel, H. 1979 Survey of African rhinoceroses: Report [to IUCN, African Rhino Specialist Group]. Report, cyclostyled, pp. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino Poaching serious and increasing.   details Klingel, H. 1979 Survey of African rhinoceroses: Report [to IUCN, African Rhino Specialist Group]. Report, cyclostyled, pp. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino Poaching pressure is serious and increasing in the north, and this may indicate that horns are smuggled to Kenya.   details Klingel, H. 1979 Survey of African rhinoceroses: Report [to IUCN, African Rhino Specialist Group]. Report, cyclostyled, pp. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Distribution - Poaching White Rhino No recent information, but poaching is a serious threat to the remaining rhinos. Horns were smuggled to Uganda and offered to tourists (own experience).   details Borner, M. 1979 What chance have the rhinos?. Oryx 15 (2): 111-112 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species The hunters use three kind of trap for rhino, the most harmful to the population being the one that drives spear deep into the rhino's back, because, not only does it very rarely kill the rhino immediately, but local hunters admitted that more than half of the speared rhinos were never found. Dr...   details Zon, A.P.M. van der 1977 Sumatran rhino in Kalimantan (Borneo). Tiger Paper 4 (2): 12, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino In 1931, the Sumatran rhino was declared a fully protected animal and until 1935 was reported frequently in the mountains of Kalimantan even though experiencing severe hunting pressure by the Dayak people with their spears and pit traps. From the few reports made since 1935 it seems that trapping...   details Bolton, M. 1977 New parks and reserves in Nepal. Oryx 13 (5): 473-479, figs. 1-3, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino A high priority was to stop poaching. The Nepalese park warden and an expatriate regional warden supported by FAO devised a system of reqards to informers and patrols by park guards which proved so effective that only a single case of rhino poaching has been recorded in the last two years.   details World Wildlife Fund 1976 Rhino poachers caught by use of WWF supplied radios. International Zoo News 23 (2): 32 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Two would be poachers weree caught red-handed in Kaziranga during testing of an anti-poaching radio network financed by WWF. P. Lahan reported that two men were detected digging pits to trap rhinos and the radios were used to facilitate their arrest. They were sentenced to three month's impriso...   details Verschuren, J. 1975 Wildlife in Zaire. Oryx 13 (2): 149-163 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Distribution - Poaching White Rhino Censuses in 1963 indicated 1300 individuals. Almost all were exterminated in a few months in 1964 by local rebels or Sudanese mercenaries.   details Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino Rhinos have been illegally hunted to death, mostly by far-ranging Iban and Kelabit-Muruts.   details Fitter, R. 1974 Most endangered mammals: an action programme. Oryx 12 (4): 436-449, figs. 1-5, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Fortunately anti-poaching patrols are much more effective in Chitawan (Nepal). In the latter no rhinos were lost in 1973, compared with an annual loss of 10-12 previously.   details Fitter, R. 1974 25 years on: a look at endangered species. Oryx 12 (3): 341-346, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Efforts to preserve the Indian rhino have been less succesful, largely owing to poachers in search of rhino horn for the Chinese market. While most remaining populations are in national parks or reserves, poaching continues at a rate which will exterminate the Indian Rhino in the wild long befor...   details Fitter, R. 1974 Most endangered mammals: an action programme. Oryx 12 (4): 436-449, figs. 1-5, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino In 1971/72, for instance, poachers killed almost half the surviving 60 rhino in Jaldapara reserve in West Bengal.   details Richter, W. von 1973 Black and square-lipped rhinoceroses in Botswana. Biological Conservation 5 (1): 59-60, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Both rhinoceros species are fully protected in Botswana, the last Black Rhinos to be killed being shot by a poacher in 1936 in northwestern Botswana. Recently, a Black Rhinoceros was shot to the west of the Kwando River in the Caprivi, north of the Botswana frontier, and, as the species is absen...   details Lahan, P.; Sonowal, R.N. 1973 Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary, Assam: a brief description and report on the census of large animals (March 1972). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 70 (2): 245-278, tables 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1971, 8 (4/2 adult, 1/1 young)   details Lahan, P.; Sonowal, R.N. 1973 Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary, Assam: a brief description and report on the census of large animals (March 1972). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 70 (2): 245-278, tables 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1968, 10 (7/3)   details Lahan, P.; Sonowal, R.N. 1973 Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary, Assam: a brief description and report on the census of large animals (March 1972). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 70 (2): 245-278, tables 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1967, 12 (6/4 adult, 1/1 young)   details Lahan, P.; Sonowal, R.N. 1973 Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary, Assam: a brief description and report on the census of large animals (March 1972). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 70 (2): 245-278, tables 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1969, 8 (1/0 adult, 2/5 young)   details Lahan, P.; Sonowal, R.N. 1973 Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary, Assam: a brief description and report on the census of large animals (March 1972). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 70 (2): 245-278, tables 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1970, 2 (2/0)   details Lahan, P.; Sonowal, R.N. 1973 Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary, Assam: a brief description and report on the census of large animals (March 1972). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 70 (2): 245-278, tables 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1966, 5 (2/3)   details Lahan, P.; Sonowal, R.N. 1973 Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary, Assam: a brief description and report on the census of large animals (March 1972). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 70 (2): 245-278, tables 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1965, 18 (14/4).   details Waller, R.H. 1972 Observations on the wildlife sanctuaries of India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 69 (3): 574-590 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poaching is minimal except along the southern border of the sanctuary.   details Anonymous 1972 Rhinos slaughtered. Animals 14 (12): 568 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poaching 1971, 29   details Waller, R.H. 1972 Observations on the wildlife sanctuaries of India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 69 (3): 574-590 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Though 1970 saw some unfortunate losses from poaching.   details Verschuren, J. 1972 Les Parcs nationaux de la Republique du Zaire pres de cinquante ans apres leur creation. Africa Tervuren 18 (2): 1-8, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Distribution - Poaching White Rhino Censuses in 1963 indicated 1300 individuals. Almost all were exterminated in a few months in 1964 by local rebels or Sudanese mercenaries.   details Banerjee, R. 1972 Where flying vultures reveal secrets - Kaziranga. Cheetal 15 (1): 48-50, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species They have also fixed dung places and each beast has its own wallow. This unfortunate habit helps the poachers to kill them by the pit method. The rhino struggles vigorously inside the small, pit and finally breaks its neck. The poachers usually wait for the signal of the flying vultures, then ...   details Kerr, M.A.; Fothergill, R. 1971 Black rhinoceros in Rhodesia. Oryx 11 (2/3): 129-134, fig. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Roth's comprehensive table of known rhinoceros kills in Rhodesia since 1919 gave a total of 556, which was probably, as he suggested, very conservative, and information gathered since 1967 indicates that rhinoceros poaching is still heavy in some areas. Since 1964, in the Binga district alone, 6...   details Anonymous 1970 WWF & IUCN: Kaziranga. Animals 13 (7): 322-323 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino United States National Appeal has handed over $6000 to Kaziranga for purchase of a four-wheel drive vehicle and a motorboat, to be used for the protection of rhinos and to strengthen the anti-poaching system.   details Das, B.N. 1969 The role, management and economic function of a national park with special reference to Kaziranga. Indian Forester 95: 785-791, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1967, 13   details Das, B.N. 1969 The role, management and economic function of a national park with special reference to Kaziranga. Indian Forester 95: 785-791, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1966, 6   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1969 The black rhinoceros in Zambia. Oryx 10 (3): 176-192, 1 map, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino Uys considers that about 50 rhinoceros are poached annually. L.D.C. Allen estimates 30-40 for the Luangwa Valley alone; in 1968 he had 163 horns in his store largely from the 1965 amnesty, and he considers that the proximity of the Malawi and Mozambique   details Das, B.N. 1969 The role, management and economic function of a national park with special reference to Kaziranga. Indian Forester 95: 785-791, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Poached in 1968, 10 (7/3)   details Gee, E.P. 1968 Threatened species of large mammals in tropical South East Asia and the importance of sanctuaries (including national parks and reserves) in their conservation: pp. 265-266 In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino It is significant that poachers of the rhinoceros in Kaziranga are forced to do their illegal killing secretly and in the remote interior away from and unknown to the local inhabitants who would resist such interference from outsiders.   details Somberg, J. 1968 Udjung Kulon, Indonesisch paradijs. Panda Nieuws 4 (9): 2-6, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Distribution - Poaching Javan Rhino During second world war, the reserve was neglected. At least 15 rhinos were poached.   details Shuttleworth, C. 1967 Malayan safari. London, Phoenix House, pp. 1-156 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino One Chinese hunter was arrested recently in the Endau area of Northern Johore for trapping and killing a two-horned rhino with the help of aborigines.   details Spillett, J.J.; Tamang, K.M. 1966 Wild life conservation in Nepal. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 63 (3): 556-572, pls. 5-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino After democracy (1951), many rhino were poached and the horns sold to further the cause of the political upheaval which ended the Rana rule. Poaching of rhino continued in the following years.   details Spillett, J.J. 1966 The Jaldapara Wild Life Sanctuary, West Bengal. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 63 (3): 534-544 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino 1966, No evidence of rhino poaching observed   details Spillett, J.J. 1966 A report on wild life surveys in North India and Southern Nepal. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 63 (3): 492-493 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino There were a number of reports during 1964 and 1965 concerning the slaughter of rhinos inside the sanctuary. Although some of these reports were clearly exaggerated and others appeared to be unfounded, the Forest Dept. decided to do a census.   details Spillett, J.J. 1966 Laokhowa and other rhino areas in Assam. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 63 (3): 529-534 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino 1964, a case of poaching was detected by the Forest Dept. The case was investigated by the police and the horn of 1.75 kg of an adult female recovered.   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Distribution - Poaching White Rhino Poaching has recently been unknown in the border areas with Uganda and Congo. The very tough penalties imposed by the government seem to work. It has often been said that rhino poachers are pubished by death and that game rangers are ordered to shoot to kill. This has not been officially verif...   details Natal Parks Board 1964 16th Annual Report, 1 April 1963 - 31 March 1964. Typewritten Report. Pietermaritzburg, NPB, pp. 1-35 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino A black rhino had to be destroyed after being found with a wire snare attached to the hind leg. The wire had, during the animal's struggle to free itseld, completely severed the foot from the leg and it only remained attached by the tendons. The wound had also become gangrenous. Despite its te...   details Coolidge, H.J. 1964 Vanishing mammals of Asia. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Zoology 8: 33-36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Distribution - Poaching Javan Rhino I recall that just after the war a notorious Chinese poacher moved in to make his fortune by killing off the rhinos in the reserve, but was, however, killed by a tiger.   details Cave, A.J.E. 1963 The white rhinoceros in Uganda. Oryx 7 (1): 26-29, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Poaching White Rhino When Messrs Randall and O'Connell were catching rhino in this area in March, 1961, for transportation into the Murchison National Park, they encountered more than forty skeletons of animals which had been killed within a twelve month or so. In the same year Mr. Peter Hay (1962) came across, in t...   details Schomber, H.W. 1963 Wild life in the Sudan, part III White and black rhinoceros and giant eland. African Wildlife 17 (1): 29-35, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Distribution - Poaching White Rhino Cases of poaching may continue in the border districts of Uganda but are punished with exceptionally heavy penalties inflicted by the Sudanese government. Judging from replies to my enquiries, such encroachments occur very seldom today.   details Cave, A.J.E. 1963 The white rhinoceros in Uganda. Oryx 7 (1): 26-29, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Distribution - Poaching White Rhino Captain C. R. S. Pitman (1963, pers.comm.) reports an increase of numbers, due to the rigorous measures taken by the Sudan Government against poaching - the most serious single threat to the survival of this species. The Sudanese game wardens are armed, and under orders where poachers are concer...   details Natal Parks Board 1963 15th Annual Report, 1 April 1962 - 31 March 1963. Typewritten Report. Pietermaritzburg, NPB, pp. 1-37 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Two black rhino were destroyed by snaring in the reserve and 1 white rhino was killed on 5 August 1962.   details Natal Parks Board 1962 14th Annual Report, 1 April 1961 - 31 March 1962. Typewritten Report. Pietermaritzburg, NPB, pp. 1-35 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino One poacher who snared and killed a black rhino was arrested, convicted and sentenced to one year's imprisonment or a fine of R200.   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (6)  ... 3 4 5 6